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According to my f-list, it's a zombie apocalypse out there. The usual run of flesh-eaters, ghouls, hiding from the undead, cutting down the undead, going out in a glory of flame and death, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

Me, I have Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and I'm rocking out to the Silver Surfer being more awesome than thou. Gotta love that power cosmic.

Also, does every Fantastic Four antagonist have a thing for Sue? Seriously?

I am told that Von Doom is much better this time around than he was in the first movie. Him running around on the board and blowing shit up was awesomely fun.

Johnny Storm is perfect. Also, lickable. Mmmm. But still, that is a perfect Johnny. Loved, loved, loved the scene with him chasing the Silver Surfer. The others were good, too, though I was constantly just a wee bit bothered by the way Sue looked. Nothing against the actress - she was quite good for the part. It just bothered me.

Nice running gag with the effort to get Reed and Susan married. Lots of fun when Von Doom cut loose. Lots of fun when the Surfer was magnificently awesome and mansome. Also, shiny.

Fun movie all around.

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To heck with Doctor Doom not translating well to the big screen. He's likely Marvel's best supervillain. They didn't even try to follow the comics, so I guess we'll never know. If they can make a crazy guy with a clown motif work twice (maybe), they could make a scarred, vengeful Eastern European ruler in power armor work.

They didn't follow the comics because the comics doesn't translate well to the big screen. They had to tie his origin in with the FF, otherwise there would have been far too much origin stories and explanations.

Don't forget, 'evil psychopathic clown-themed murderer' works pretty damn well without many alterations. Put a guy in full armour and you lose the ability to convey emotion with facial expression. Not to mention the fact that Hollywood like to show off the face of the actor that they paid money for. That's fine with a character like Spider-Man, you just have him yank his mask off from time to time. But with a character like Doom, who is SUPPOSED to be scarred to all hell and back, you need to come up with all these crazy reasons for why you have him unmasked for over half of the bloody movie. Just because something's a great idea in comics doesn't mean the same applies on the big screen.

I think disagree with this. If nothing else, Doctor Doom only has one emotion -- anger! -- and that's what his mask looks like, anyways. ;) I don't see how a talented director and actor couldn't find a way to convey emotion here. It would be kind of sad if Marvel's greatest villain was denied a proper appearance in movies forever just because he is forced to wear armor...